Marjan Kamali

*** If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran *** 1953, Tehran. In a small shop in a country on the brink of unrest, two people meet for the very first time. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the stationery...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful' - Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve 'Heartbreaking and life affirming' - Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters 'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love – this novel has everything' - Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes From the author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran,...

From the award-nominated author of Together Tea and The Lion Women of Tehran, this poignant, "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) and "affecting novel about first love" (Real Simple) explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri's neighbourhood stationery shop,...

A New York Times Bestseller From nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali, this perfect book club read is "evocative...and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism" (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to...

'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful' – Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve 'Heartbreaking and life affirming' – Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters 'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love – this novel has everything' – Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes From the author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship,...